i really do not want to die young young. again today the. operation which worked out with the british. yes i can give you that guarantee believe that it's true that much anticipated u.k. intelligence chiefs televised public grilling turns into more of a q. and a session with predictable questions and even more predictable. we report from guantanamo bay prison guards feel the comfort of billions of dollars being spent to keep their spirits up. little more than a life of. one of these babies over the finest ten thousand dollars deprived of even the most basic human rights to the inmates a big tailor made to one former prisoner tells us. the

high altitude handover the. launch from the baikonur cosmodrome pictures about two. minutes just past midnight now here in moscow this is r.t. international first this hour. of american intelligence forces trying to justify mass surveillance now it's britain's spy chiefs who have been given the floor to explain themselves but those who expected a heavy grilling were in for a serious disappointment as r.t. sarah firth has been following the hearing explains. well of course the searching coming as a sensitive time for the government and those intelligence agencies on the back of the edward snowden revelations now we saw the spy chief being questioned over

a broad range of issues but i'm going to take you like to the chief. keef's in love and he was asked why it was necessary for the majority to have intelligence gathered in the attempts to catch the minority of doing wrong and he answered that with an analogy of a haystack so trying to find a needle in a haystack essentially saying that they don't look at the innocent hey if you like is an analogy that he used a fair bit do you think we really saw the level of scrutiny that a lot of people will have been calling for indeed if you think at the beginning of the session when we heard it said that witnesses are going to be asked to reveal any secret information so you're never really going to get any mind blowing revelations from those three. but i do think people have been looking perhaps for the questioning to have gone a little bit further on some of those points and i think one of the most

interesting bits in that question and answer session was when the. boss said that much of their success lies in terrorists being unaware of what they do and he went on to say that as a direct consequence of the snowden revelations their task has been made more difficult now let's take a listen to that. effect of the media coverage bruegel media coverage will make the job that we have harder for years to come the leaks from snowden have been very damaging they've put our operations at risk is clear that our groceries are rubbing their hands with glee our card is nothing you don't do. information you can share with those as to actual hard evidence the terrorists or potential terrorists have been looking at these reports not in this public form and

again i'm not sure that people are going to be fully satisfied with the answer is that they will see the main issue here i think is that a lot of the questions and a lot of the answers given from the spite he's we're centrally asking the public to take it on trust you know we're not sneakers that's not what we do we're protecting . lives in the and the country and i think the problem is in the wake of the edits need motivation is of course a lot of that trust has being eroded and say that is where the difficulty is going to live or certainly there are some interesting bits of information in there that are going to be very closely scrutinized but i think certain you're going to see this debate continuing in a sort of furthur will most experts predicted the intelligence forces were unlikely to find themselves in hot water like of course the journalists who release notes documents and take a look at efforts the british government made to plug those leaks back in july the office of the guardian newspaper which had some of the files were raided by g c h q

agents and the hard drives were destroyed as well a month later you may recall david miranda partner a former guardian journalist glenn greenwald was detained for nine hours at heathrow airport he was in transit between berlijn and rio after meeting a filmmaker who was involved in breaking the leaks david around there is no challenging his detention through the courts or the british authorities insist around his actions constituted terrorism professor of international security david gold brace believes the government's going too far. i do think the public has a right to know exactly the overall ramifications of the intelligence community most definitely i think that the issue around how far the u.k. government can go in squeezing an independent and independent newspaper or news organization is totally is totally unacceptable within a democracy and we have a strong and you just feel system which is suggesting that the government is going too far and its crackdown on the government but be key in years is that we have to have trust in our politicians that they will have proper responsible oversight of

the intelligence agencies otherwise we're no different than any other not democracy . according to the snowden leaks you can tell a jones was able to monitor up to six hundred million communications every day other were the only ones who had access to them eight hundred fifty thousand n.s.a. employees and private u.s. contractors could also dig into u.k. databases and i was going to teach you can explains pretty wasn't alone either in helping washington to keep an eye on the world. intelligence services of five english speaking countries have joint resources to spy on the whole world the u.s. is the most resourceful its closest ties are with britain's jussi h.q. but canada australia new zealand are also contributing australia backs up washington by keeping tabs on asian countries from the documents leaked by edward snowden who learned that. embassies across asia pacific coast highly sensitive

intelligence one from program as part of the five eyes network it's not just terrorists that the five eyes are looking for a former australian intelligence officer privy to the program said the main focus is political diplomatic and economic intelligence most recently the east timorese government complained publicly about australian spying during negotiations on the future of the timor gap oil and gas reserves canada two is interested in natural resources and is accused of actively spying on south america edward snowden revealed that canada with the help of the n.s.a. hacked into the brazilian ministry of energy and mines he also exposed that the u.s. has been spying on brazil's national oil company edward snowden revealed some details of how the five guys operate but even before intelligence officials made no secret of their quote unquote orwellian cooperation i met yesterday with our five guys colleagues and one of them. offered up the term that papias

become popular and his countries australia call it the efficiency dividend which is . the orwellian euphemism for cuts in these intelligence services it looks like a give and take relationship a two way street or should i say a five way street in washington i'm going to the second are to. commit a bit later in the program japan's brace for the most dangerous operation of the crippled fukushima nuclear power state since the twenty eleven meltdown we've got. the crew there monitoring events will bring you up to speed plus. we have come here to do serious business to make concrete progress the e.u. expresses optimism over the current round of nuclear talks with the brand but that approach isn't shared by everyone we don't want the other side to be more serious that is they have to start lifting the genocidal sanctions those sanctions are killing ordinary iranians. next of the cost of maintaining one of the planet's

most notorious jails guantanamo bay will hit five billion dollars next year artie's crew went to the come to find out what exactly american taxpayers are paying for. despite misconceptions give lho is not just a geo to be or not to be shot it's also a forty five square mile military base with no plans of going anywhere full of signs of the stablished american life it is a navy base and we just happened to have the camps in here home to the only mcdonalds on cuban soil a subway sandwich shop a starbucks and a taco bell you got busted vested financial interests that you got pizza starbucks and. all of these other places that helped to set up a logistical support for the troops over the there are about five and a half thousand people living and working on the base roughly half serve the actual detention center the u.s. government has been leasing this territory since one thousand nine hundred three for just over forty five hundred dollars curiously that is still the price today

but it's said that the cuban government has been refusing to accept this money for decades the castro government said you know we don't want this lease anymore in the united states' position was that it's a binding lease and in the lease it actually says that it can't be broken unless both sides both countries agree to that that strikes me as a very odd contract server and territory that the u.s. has occupied against cuba's wishes since one thousand fifty nine most officers come here for short term of up to nine months or longer deployment of two to three years far from a whole life isn't put on hold and. certain people wait and certainly have if it's away from your like rank system then you're allowed to you know there's the don't tell me see i'm an open air movie theater playing all the hottest hollywood blockbusters and it ticky bar to let loose after a hard day's work even though most say schedules aren't that intense anyway we actually get quite a bit of time off like

a decent man and linger to be an end of year as our activities for people of m.w. are stands for morale welfare and recreation. almost every sport known to man is available to team get on state of the art facilities. i love it it's a lot of people think there's not much to do but there's definitely an abundance to do. being in a remote location doesn't even have to affect eating habits and all you can eat lunch costs just under five bucks and breakfast is half that price a downside though information or lack thereof or do a lot of the t.v. programs broadcasting here are army focused. and internet is almost nonexistent the beast dubbed no stream a stand by some soldiers even so we're told those serving here are banned from looking at websites like wiki leaks for example once classified always classified. even if the information has long been made public there are other strict regulations in place too fun fact about guantanamo apparently the life of an costs

here a little more than a life of a detainee if you run one of these babies over the fine is ten thousand dollars. there's a very strict speed limit in guantanamo and it's a very slow speed limit and people say that that's that's all about the quantised somewhat ironic at a place marred by human rights scandals officials make a point of showing journalists how well prisoners two are kept and thirteen here when i wanted to call so for a compliant detainee at guantanamo they would be allowed to eat books have a two piece here some head and shoulder shampoo the less compliant ones have to wear the orange uniforms and get only two books at a time who's going to the other side so you can see the books detainees can't come in here but the prisoner library lovingly displays the best of their art for t.v. crews to see a lot of pre-selected books to avoid certain topics violence sexual and religious

stuff controversy shelves packed with magazines d.v.d.'s and video games plenty of ways for legit prisoners of war to pass the indefinite time they're kept here without charges and party guantanamo bay cuba well you can watch show reports from behind the camp's walls including conversations with inmates of the lawyers on line. dot com we've got special coverage of. so the completely different now the sochi twenty fourteen torch relay is taking a cosmic twist earlier today in another memorable moment in the journey of the olympic symbol a multinational crew carried it on board the i assess the international space station the three new crewmembers then join the existing six man table on the orbiting platform after blasting off from baikonur cosmodrome thursday morning but it's not the final stop of course for torture in space as marty doctors explained. docking confirmed for four twenty seven am central time and now the crew and symbol

of the upcoming winter games have met on the international space station cosmonauts cut off and so go to sun scheme will take the modified torch on a space walk roughly four hundred kilometers above earth fully docked with the current crew this will only be the second time in the isis history that three soyuz spacecraft and nine crew members have been aboard the lab complex at the same time millions will watch as the tought makes history safety and physics mean they card like the torch in space the design has also been changed so it can't fly away with it it wouldn't make much sense that everyone knows there can be no flame in outer space as nothing burns there and it doesn't make sense to fake it after circling the planet several times the torch will come back to earth with the three returning crew members on the eleventh of november to continue its record breaking relate with the world's attention on this historic moment it's

a nervous time for everyone involved we only need to prepare psychologically because you can't just before miss work mechanically as some routine job after all we are doing with a symbol here if you will is always good as economies working together for the better of everybody on the planet so in a small way i think it's great that we bring this to the international space station which is another invasion of international cooperation. over the coming weeks thousands of torchbearers will join the olympic relay across sixty five thousand kilometers of terrain covering all eighty three regions of russia once complete it will be the longest relate in the history of the winter olympics which were common it in the opening ceremony of the games in sochi by the black sea february seventh in the mean time the olympic torch meets the final frontier but here we are. a moment that promises to be truly out of this world

martin andrews are here to learn like a no or a zero well we'll bring you more on the record breaking torch relay for the twenty four two winter olympics in sochi on saturday when the torch is taking on that historic space walk with a special coverage of the amazing event live all this journal out in moscow and meantime back to the present more news for you after this break. philippa torch is on its epic journey to. one hundred twenty three days. through two. cities of russia. really fourteen thousand people or sixty five those who kill him. in a record setting trip by land. sea and others face. a limp torch relay. on r t r q dot com.

are you willing to engage yourself in a debate when you would be pressing not only if war legalisation of cannabis in our land but can pay for the abolishment of those punishments and say united arab emirates. what their own situation here first and we've seen with the. easiest to solve what the countries that you mentioned there it's an even bigger problem and i would be opinion of the opinion is actually human rights to consume what you want so long as it is entirely so this is actually a bigger issue and then kind of. the sulfur in chief that i have over my own body.

the pakistani taliban subject to peace negotiations with the government comes hours off the militants chose a new leader to replace the form i had killed by a u.s. drone attack last week i spoke to his mom about base journalist who says the u.s. was always to put a halt to its drone strikes but chose to ignore it. the taliban are angry at. last week a kamala masood the previous leader of the taliban who was killed in a u.s. drone attack more fools little are the new newly appointed chief spokesperson for the taliban and leader of the taliban now was always against peace talks even before the killing of hacking with food last week and he was responsible for the shooting on malala yousafzai the insurgency from two thousand and seven to two

thousand and nine in the swat valley that for thousands of pakistanis killed so he has always been against peace talks with the pakistan government who have accused the us of sabotaging its talks the us were aware that peace talks were imminent and they had been asked by the pakistan government to hold strong strikes whilst these peace negotiations were occurring everybody in pakistan knew about peace talks occurring so it's very difficult to imagine they weren't aware of them and where do peace negotiations go from here at the moment that come to a grinding halt you know boxed on government are angry at the u.s. and the taliban are angry at the pakistan government and it just seems that nobody seems to be going anywhere with peace talks words guarded optimism over iran's nuclear crisis solution once again heard in geneva or a fresh round of talks between iran and six world powers got underway officials say

an outline of a long awaited deal is a merging world powers are offering a partial easing of sanctions if iran freezes parts of its nuclear program michael mann the spokesman for the e.u. foreign affairs chief catherine ashton who chairs the nuclear talks he spoke through our t.v. says there is promise but it's ultimately up to iran to end the standoff. the signs are good in the fact that we are getting into the detail in a way that's really never happened before under the previous iranian government be have come here to do serious business to make concrete progress the iranians have expressed the wish to do the same so what we hope is that they will follow up their words their good words with good deeds in the negotiating room they have to make a certain number of undertakings and guarantees this is a prout's the iranian nuclear program where the international community has justified concerns so they have to make that step and really you know agree to do certain things that the international community is demanding for example it's all about the enrichment of uranium which is currently being unreached in iran to

a level which is not necessary for a peaceful nuclear program therefore there are certain things that they have to do of course this is the negotiations that both sides have to be flexible but the the first step really needs to come from the iranian side. and would emerge as a journalist based in tehran and disagrees that the talks success depends purely on around this is what it is say to me no one can get expect a major breakthrough as long as the israeli lobby is putting pressure on the western side if dead western side one skill respects the radian right to enrich uranium if they are ready to respect that right i can go in teeth from my sources close to the negotiating team that the talks with definitely succeed. otherwise if they're not going to respect your right to enrich uranium it's not going to get anywhere iran says we're going to be more cooperative we're going to be more transparent at the. same time and once the other side to be more serious

that is they have to start lifting the genocidal sanctions those sanctions are killing ordinary iranians diabetic's cancer patients have affiliates they're not harming the government they are harming ordinary people while outspoken advocate of the sanctions israel's increasingly resorting now to twitter with the hash tag stop the charm offensive spreading a message that runs diplomatic efforts. story online and also at r.t. dot com trial over the acid attack on the boat show fit his artistic director continues now the victim speaks out about the assaults and is demanding almost one hundred thousand dollars in compensation to. a nuclear cleanup team in fukushima is preparing to move the power plants fuel rods to a safe place it's the most hazardous undertaking than at the japanese facility since it was crippled by that earthquake and tsunami two and a half years ago alexina skis in japan with the latest. extracting these rods from the balls is

a really hard task because each one of them called ways of more than three hundred kilograms and they can not even hit each other that's what caused a nuclear chain reaction not only these pools are crippled but the machinery the automated machinery doesn't work as well so everyone has to be extracted from the pool manually the typical company running the fukushima nuclear process and the japanese government are now in a vicious cycle situation because on the one hand they need to remove these fuel rods they are contaminating the water as has been reported in the waters of the fukushima nuclear power plant and on the other hand of course this is a very risky venture because they have to literally extract every rod and there's more than a thousand of them and each rod has to be extracted manually we also managed to take a peek inside the no go zone in other areas and you know what what shocked me the most that surprised me the most and i'm saying that by my experiences of traveling to the school zone in chernobyl that in the fukushima area the towns which are just close to the station ten fifteen kilometers away from the station they have been

reopened for residents were literally saw people rebuilding their houses in this area. these people would have to be reviewed evacuated again and or putting themselves under very serious risk well in fact in the fukushima region itself there are several n.g.o.s who are not believe the government and the tepco organization in their measurements of the radiation levels the one which struck me the most and we talked with them yesterday the movement called the mothers of fukushima these are ordinary women who are afraid for the safety and health of their children they bought three meters which the cheapest of them costs around a thousand u.s. dollars and they are just trolling the areas taking their own measurements and sending them to the government but the government as they say is doing nothing it is not considering the radiation measurements as if they are trying to play down the scale of the things happening even in tokyo in front of the industrial ministry there is a peak at that there is a protest happening for already eight hundred days with the people there protesting against nuclear energy and the actions of the government and the tepco so you can

see how serious the rhetoric of the anti-nuclear movement is now in japan even though they say that their voices being often silenced by those that. well to say lexi is in japan it would be for the story of the next couple of days keeping you up speed with it so twenty five minutes past midnight here in moscow but with more news just about thirty five minutes time then after the break their words on a boy because it's not talking to an irish use now because of legalizing marijuana and talking about his ideas on how to win the war on drugs and watching r t international. illegal immigration is a hot topic and everyone always says that immigrants do the work that no one wants to do well let me explain why that is i would occur just on vacation got into a taxi drawn by a former migrant worker who used to make

a living in moscow he told me that he really worked hard driving unloading trucks after five years he came back home and bought a house yes for the seller that russians can't even survive and he was able to buy a house employers and russian america say that locals don't want to work or demotivated well want to margaret work or on a salary that could build a bright future one compared to a a local who can't even make ends meet while you could see why the migrant workers are a lot more motivated let me put it to you this way if you knew that you had to work five hard years of some awful labor under awful conditions somewhere far away like brazil or germany but would be able to pay off the house would you do it i think you would let's not buy into this myth that locals and country x. don't want to work they just don't want to work at complete futility for table scraps but the shust my opinion.

it's like two active camps at guantanamo where patients are worse. after and. our strike never turned world's attention to the ways that some gulag of our time. hello and welcome to worlds apart there's been a notable warming up in polls today via of cannabis legalization in recent decades even though governments in the world are not really a rational to follow through on that will our land become the next to decriminalize mary j. well to discuss that i'm now joined by lupe min. a member of the irish parliament and a longtime supporter of such moves mr flanagan thank you very much for your time i

know that you've been complaining for cannabis legalisation pretty much throughout your political career but most recently it seems that there is a real momentum towards that not just in our land but also but in much of around the western world why do you think that a well a i think at this stage the vast majority of people in the western world have worked out. the criminalization of cannabis users is not working i mean are you doing is the system is just that there are up to two hundred fifty thousand people who use cannabis every year there are one hundred thousand people who've ended up with a criminal record for possession as a result of this and at this stage i think people have worked out that the current strategy is not working it's leaving money in the hands of the criminals and it's actually making cannabis a far more dangerous substance now i know that you recently introduced the bill on the cannabis legalization to the dole the irish parliament and some of your fellow m.p.'s have been pretty skeptical some are even openly critical of such

a proposal with all the aware and those that you mentioned earlier why do you think there is still such a strong opposition to this move. well i suppose the reality is that the vast majority of the members of our dollar the members of our parliament appear to be opposed to this legislation and i would suggest that the reason why they would be opposed is that they are afraid as being seen as soft on drugs somehow and that they're not being as hard line as maybe they expect their enforcers for them to be and a b. at this stage it's becoming clear to me that the general public i've actually moved on on this issue you will cash what they call our paper of record here in this country the irish times you read the articles that have been written about this proposed legislation anderson is quite clear from the comments that he made hundreds of them that it seems that the irish public have walking up to the fact.